The Elizabethans (77 page)

Vavasour, Anne 120, 291

venereal disease 307–9

Venezuela 334

the
Victoria
178

the
Victory
252

A View of the Present State of Ireland
2, 13, 147, 148, 353

Vigo Bay 210

Virginia 210, 218, 227–8, 294, 336, 339, 340

Virginia Company 361

Vitruvius 317

Von Wedel, Lupold 293

Waite, Thomas 70

Wakefield 261

Waldegrave, Robert 280–1

Wales 300

Wales Wood 137

Walsingham, Sir Francis 3, 28, 111–16, 120, 142, 196, 197, 209, 219, 264, 265, 272, 349, 356

the Armada 250, 255, 257

Babington Plot 231–3

death 299, 302

and Drake 175, 176, 255

and Ireland 9, 171, 172

and Mary, Queen of Scots 230–3, 236, 237, 241, 242

and Protestantism 108, 186, 208

and Sidney 111, 211, 214

spy-master 107, 108, 115, 203, 272, 313, 315, 319, 325

Walton, Isaak 284

Wanchese 227

War of the Roses 39, 45, 52, 70, 169, 215, 278

Wardour Castle 133

Warwick 269

Warwick, Earl of 101, 114

Warwickshire 282

Watts, Archdeacon 77

Waugh, Evelyn 200, 264

Weaye, William 72

Webster, John 124

weddings 126–7

Welbeck Abbey 129, 133

Welshman 44–5

Wentworth, William 120

West Breifne, Lord of 301

West Indies 15, 19

Westminster 297

Westminster Abbey 32–3, 138, 242, 353

Westminster Hall 301, 360

Westminster School 78, 222

Westmorland 76

Westmorland, Countess of 122

Westmorland, Earl of 92, 94, 99, 101

Wetheringsett 222, 338

Whalley 94

Whickham 132

Whiddon, Jacob 331, 334

whipping 307

White, John 228

White, Sir Thomas 77

Whitefriars Theatre 269

Whitehall 293

Whitehead, David 77

Whitgift, Archbishop John 263, 280–1, 365

Whitlocke, James 78

Whitney, Eleanor 313

Whittingham, Katherine 99–100

Whittingham, William 99–100

Wicklow 353

wife-beating 126

Wigan 94

Wigston, Roger 281

Wilcox, Thomas 144

Wilkes, Thomas 212

the
William and John
23

William of Orange 39, 185, 187, 206–7, 342

William the Silent
see
William of Orange

Williams, Penry 101, 171

Williams, Roger 349

Williams, Thomas 22

Willoughby, Sir Francis 132

Willoughby d’Eresby, Lord 352

Wilson, Derek 50

Wilson, Thomas 185

Wilton House 135, 136

Wiltshire 133, 137, 285

Windham, Master Sergeant 145

Windsor, Duchess of 311

Windsor Castle 138

Winchester 78

Winchester, Bishop of 281, 307

Winchester, Marquess of 42, 116

Wingfield Manor 129, 131

Winter, John 176, 179

Winter, Sir William 174, 251

Winterbourne 326

witchcraft 87, 88

Wittenberg 367

Witney 297

wizardry 89

Wolfe, Reyne/Reginald 143

Wolsey, Cardinal 306

women 37–9, 122–39

Wood, Anthony 185

Wood, Sir Robert 145

Woodneff 76

Woodstock 165, 166

Worcester, Earls of 352

Workington 97

Worksop Manor 129, 133

Wriothesley, Henry 215

Wyatt, Sir Thomas 46

Wynter, George 175

Yarm 95

Yates, Frances 89, 91, 150, 318, 322

York 93, 261

York, Archbishop of 33, 65

York, Elizabeth of 188

Yorkshire 113, 129, 133, 137

Young, Dr John 216

Zutphen 213

Zwingli 60, 198

All portraits of Queen Elizabeth told a story. This one was a present from her Champion Sir Henry Lee, and shows Elizabeth dominating her kingdom, with her toe on his own estate at Ditchley Park.

The Tudor dynasty – Henry VIII is depicted with his heirs : Mary Tudor and her husband Philip II of Spain. Edward VI and Elizabeth I.

The rigid control of the Elizabethan state was in the hands of Sir Francis Walsingham

Elizabeth’s long-term Secretary and adviser, William Cecil, first Lord Burleigh.

William Shakespeare

The grammar school at Stratford-upon-Avon where William Shakespeare went ‘unwillingly to school’. The grammar school system of the Elizabethans was a key ingredient of their great national Renaissance.

The Queen’s childhood friend and great love was Robert Dudley.

Kenilworth, Robert Dudley's Warwickshire seat, was the scene of one of the most spectacular of Elizabethan pageants.

Edmund Spenser, whose unfinished
Faerie Queene
, infused with Protestantism, numerology and adventure, defined the Elizabethans to themselves in stupendously elaborate verse.

Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, and Sir Philip Sidney’s sister, was herself a poet and patron of the arts.